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Missing Michigan woman Lynette Hooker may have returned to her sailboat before disappearance in the Bahamas, source says

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Cristian Benavides
Missing Michigan woman Lynette Hooker may have returned to her sailboat before disappearance in the Bahamas, source says
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U.S. investigators are re-examining the disappearance of Lynette Hooker in the Bahamas, exploring the possibility that she returned to the couple's sailboat before vanishing. This contradicts her husband's claim that she fell overboard from a dinghy, and authorities are investigating potential signs of a physical altercation.

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The case highlights the complexities of international maritime investigations and the potential for domestic violence to be obscured by accident reports.

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Investigators with the Coast Guard are looking into the possibility that a Michigan woman who went missing in the Bahamas earlier this year may not have fallen overboard from a dinghy as her husband has claimed, but instead might have made it back to the couple's sailboat before she disappeared, a source close to the family told CBS News. CBS News has learned investigators are also looking into whether the couple possibly had a physical altercation aboard that sailboat. Lynette Hooker, 55, was reported missing by her husband, Brian Hooker, on April 5. Brian Hooker previously told authorities his wife had fallen overboard from a dinghy when the couple went for a nighttime ride from Elbow Cay and were in the process of returning to their sailboat, the "Soulmate," which was moored off Hopetown, and which the couple had been using to travel around the Bahamas.

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